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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (74929)	12/19/2022 1:28:44 PM
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China covid: If mass infection began in November (before Zero-Covid policy was abandoned), then we should be seeing peak infections in the next 2 weeks, and peak hospitalizations 1-2 weeks later. After that, the 2nd and 3rd waves should be less severe. All data out of China is suspect, but empty factories and full hospitals can’t be hidden. …the World Health Organization says the strict policy of the last three years had stopped working anyway. "The explosion of cases in China is not due to the lifting of COVID restrictions," said the WHO's head of emergency programs, Dr. Mike Ryan. "The explosion of cases in China had started long before any easing of the zero-COVID policy." cbsnews.com China’s chief epidemiologist Wu Zunyou on Saturday said the country was in the throes of the first of three Covid waves expected this winter, which was more in line with what people said they are experiencing on the ground. “I’d say sixty to seventy percent of my colleagues...are infected right now,” Liu, a 37-year-old university canteen worker in Beijing… nbcnews.com Government health experts have acknowledged the speed of the spread as they also downplay the severity of the virus. For now, those guessing at the numbers depend on anecdotal reports and hospital observations. There are many social media posts like this one, which reports hundreds of cases in a local community. A count of my friends and acquaintances in Beijing found that about 40 percent had tested positive in the last week, largely thanks to stockpiled home tests. In an informal online poll, more than 58 percent of Beijingers self-reported that they had tested positive. foreignpolicy.com